May 30,2023

1Samuel 7:5 And Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.”

Gather together

Pray for others

Gather together

They pray for you

Prayer unites me with those I pray with in an intimate way.

May 29,2023

Judges 16:28 Then Samson called to the LORD, saying, “O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!”

Remember me, I pray

Strengthen me, I pray

I will listen as I pray

Prayer is revealing your heart to He who knows it best.

May 28,2023

Judges 10:15 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems best to You; only deliver us this day, we pray.”

Help me God

I pray

Deliver me God

I pray

Prayer is the source of power, grace, love, faith and hope in Jesus Christ.

May 27,2023

Judges 6:39 Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me speak just once more: Let me test, I pray, just once more with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, but on all the ground let there be dew.”

God is it You

How do I know

Guide me God

So I may know

Prayer let's God peel the scales of self from my eyes to see Him.

 May 26,2023

Judges 6:18 “Do not depart from here, I pray, until I come to You and bring out my offering and set it before You.” And He said, “I will wait until you come back.”

Wait upon me I pray

I will return to you

and bring my offering

Wait upon me I pray

Prayer is offering time and myself to God.

 May 25,2023

Deuteronomy 3:25 ‘I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon.’

Long for a home you do not know

more pleasant than you can see

Pray to this good land you will go

and your knew home you will be

Prayer makes me homesick for heaven, a place I long to be.

 May 24,2023

Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

God I have sinned

I spoke against You

Remove the serpents

Pray for me God

Prayer is telling God before anyone else.

 May 23,2023

Numbers 14:19 “Pardon the iniquity of this people, I pray, according to the greatness of Your mercy, just as You have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”

Pardon our iniquity I pray

God be merciful I pray

As You forgave I pray

Forgive us God I pray

Prayer is unloading my guilt, fear and sin onto He who already bore it.

 May 22,2023

Numbers 14:17 “And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying,

God’s power is great

Do I let it be in me

I pray to my Lord

I will let it be in me

Prayer opens me to see the glory of God rather than the power of evil.

 May 21,2023

Numbers 12:13 So Moses cried out to the LORD, saying, “Please heal her, O God, I pray!”

Be healing God I pray

heal us God every day

hear my cry God I pray

heal us fully this day

Prayer is despair seeking hope and joy expressed to He who is the source.

 May 20,2023

Exodus 34:9 Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”

Hear my cry O my God

dwell with Your people

pardon sin O my God

to make us Your people

Prayer is freedom for the prisoners, healing for the sick, love for the lonely, and life for the dying.

 May 19,2023

Exodus 33:13 “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”

God help me pray

to know Your Way

May I see Your face

and share your grace

Prayer let's me touch people around the world with the power of God.

 May 18,2023

Exodus 32:32 “Yet now, if You will forgive their sin — but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.”

Am I willing to offer my soul for others

as God offered His life for me and others

Can I sacrifice my life and soul for others

Prayer is how God makes you more like Him.

May 17,2023

Genesis 32:29 Then Jacob asked, saying, “Tell me Your name, I pray.” And He said, “Why is it that you ask about My name?” And He blessed him there.

I have wrestled with God

What is God’s name

God has me here and now

What is God’s name

Prayer is my attempt to reach God who already reached out to me.

 May 16,2023

Ge 32:11 “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children.

Deliver me

God I pray

or I will die

this very day

Prayer is humbly admitting I can't and that I need God.

 May 15, 2023

Ge 20:7 “Now therefore, restore the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

God speaks to a king

a kings knees bend

Restore, make right

or your family dies

What will the king do

what will you do

Prayer is our introduction to God and who we really are.

 From a small room

For six years we prayed

Joining heart and soul

God has answered each

And has changed the world

People are alive even now

Some have been saved

The weary given strength

And hope has been received

The glory of God on display

Shining from a small room

Across the world lives touched

Some whom we never knew

Heaven invaded darkest earth

And evil forced to flee

As God's power flowed out

God's desire came to be

(McKendree United Methodist Church. Dave Daffron Jackie Daffron, Judy Blevins, Roy Rogers, Jason, Bonnie Ramsey, Rebecca Ramsey, Ron Ramsey.)

 Daddy's Lap

Today I come tired and sad

So much seems slipping away

Daddy can I sit in Your lap awhile

And maybe the pain will flee?

You reach and pull me up

I snuggle in Your lap

You gently touch my brow

And so much falls away

You smile with Your embrace

I long to see Your face

You heal with Your loving touch

My heart breaks and heals

I do not know when I came

But I do not want to leave

"My child return to the fray

I will hold you through today."

I slide into this broken world

Healed to serve once more

But when I weary once again

I will seek Your lap once more.

I LOVE YOU DADDY!!!

 Over the next months we will look at the word pray. Like the Apostles we can cry out, “Lord teach us to pray.” Let us pray we will learn how to pray.

Here are some of my past Heart Talks about prayer.

May 14,2023

Revelation 11:17 saying: “We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.

God reigns

I give thanks

I don’t reign

God gives thanks

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”—Abraham Lincoln

May 13,2023

Revelation 4:9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever,

In Heaven they give glory and honor and thanks

We on earth must give give glory and honor and thanks

To God who lives, reigns and love forever and ever

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

 May 12,2023

Hebrews 13:15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.

Offer God what you do not want to give

Offer to God the best of who you are

Offer to God your thanks for who He is

“Because of our sin we live upside down lives so God seems upside down to us.” Ron Ramsey

 May 11,2023

1Timothy 2:1 ¶ Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,

For others you MUST

Ask for what they need

Lift them up to God

Love to intercede

Give thank for them

Even the irritating ones

“What the world neglects, the Lord accepts.”—Deborah Brodie

 May 10,2023

2Thesalonians 2:13 ¶ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

I am enslaved to Give God thanks

because I am set free by salvation

I have been chosen for salvation

in sanctification and faith in God

“God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.”—Tony Evans

May 9,2023

1Thesalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Give thanks when good

Give thanks when bad

Give thanks when sad

Give thanks when glad

“for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”—Oswald Chambers

May 8,2023

1Thesalonians 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God,

With joy rejoice

Render God thanks

For others sake

Rejoice with joy

“Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God.”—Madeleine L’engle.

 May 7,2023

1Thesalonians 1:2 ¶ We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

If I give thanks for you today

then today for you I must pray

If I am angry with you today

then today for you I must pray

“There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

 May 6,2023

Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

What you do for God is eternal

for the human soul is eternal

We are not call to save a soul

but to help reveal God to a soul

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter." - Francis Chan

May 5,2023

Colossians 1:12 ¶ giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

There is no way

I can qualify

to inherit as a

child of Light

“I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.”—Saint Ignatius

 

May 4,2023

Colossians 1:3 ¶ We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

We Give thanks to God

The Father of our Lord

Of our Lord Jesus Christ

We must pray for them

We pray for God’s people

We pray always for them

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham